Optimist

Oh, so I'm told

There's a price you pay for waiting around

Inside this everyday town where nobody knows

What it's like outside they never get out

Outside of this everyday town

Where she grew up by a farm on the west side

She played with the boys never cared what she dressed like

They all made jokes she was never impressed by

Every night she stared out to an empty horizon

Holding the pillow that she emptied her eyes in and no

They don't understand what this feels like

And I don't understand what it feels like

Inside of the crowd with people who talk out the side of their mouth

I saw but I stayed blinded

I heard but I stayed silent

We drank and got high in suburbia fields

Quick pop a blue before somebody feels the emptiness

Take it in before everything changes

You and me we're both from different places

Hurts to know the same place that I keep my innocence

Swear you'd keep your secrets

'Cause they don't understand what it feels like

To be here but not at home

You don't feel like you belong

I swear you're not alone

(Ooh, nah-nah)

'Cause I can understand what that feels like